This is kind of a broad question:

I've got a pretty hefty perl program to evaluate and make work. My perl experience is pretty much zero but I have been doing C/C++ for ten years. I have the "Llama" book. I have been using the program to eval as a vehicle to learn perl. This is proving to be difficult. I'd like to get this thing to work and figure out why after. Not so easy. I have gotten up-to-speed on building libraries and adding modules but it's taking much longer than I hoped to figure out configuration issues (connecting a database, figuring what is missing and where to get it). I think it doesn't help much that the app I got was running on linux and I am trying to make it work on Windows.

Is it unrealistic to take this approach, ie. "start with some thing smaller, you dope")? What resources would you suggest to get the thing going?

perl looks cool, I don't think I'll have any trouble, I'm just under the gun to figure out how to get this puppy running ASAP. (I'd appreciate any advice about how long ASAP might be for someone starting from zero, too).

Thanks for your thoughts

In reply to Newbie Ramping up on a big project by Anonymous Monk

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